Expert Adobe Flex Training

Rob Rusher

Rob Rusher is an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE), Community Expert, and Certified Instructor (ACI). In his role as Principle Consultant for On3, he leads an Adobe software enablement practice to help his clients build rich Internet applications and to rapidly increase their knowledge and skills to better support their organization's goals. He has taught and mentored the technical teams at Standard and Poor’s, eBay, IBM Global Services, the Social Security Administration, and other Government and Fortune 100 organizations.

Because of his depth of knowledge and long standing relationship with Adobe, Rob was selected to write the Certified AIR training course as well as the ColdFusion and Flex certification exams. Rob has also co-authored four best selling books on building secure, cutting-edge and rapidly developed applications using Adobe AIR, ColdFusion and Flex. He is also very active is organizing and speaking at Adobe conferences and user groups. In addition to growing his software consulting practice, On3, Rob has been building expertise in rich client application development on a wider variety of devices and platforms that extend the applications to change the way we all create and live.

On3 provides consulting, mentoring and training services to help organizations grow their own experts from within. For more information, visit us at www.On3solutions.com. Rob Rusher maintains a weblog devoted to Adobe Flex and other Internet technologies at www.RobRusher.com.

Having built/architected/developed/consulted many Adobe Flex applications and
being one of the first certified Flex instructors in the world, I’ve seen a
lot of Flex applications. Some good, some bad.
But no matter how many applications or who I’m talking to, I always stress
the importance of securing proprietary information. By securing, I mean
don’t put it in your application. Unless your are encrypting your
application and decrypting at runtime, you are subject to a decompiler
exposing your secrets.
There are Flash decompilers that will take any SWF and give you the source:
Trillix Flash Decompiler is one of the best commercial tools I’ve found.
I’ve even seen guys decompile, make changes and then recompile a Flex app.
This is scary! Say goodbye to licensing software in Flash.
But HP just released a tool that has caught my eye as well. (Note: I have not
tested this ... (more)

Just finished my presentation at FITC Mobile 2009 in Toronto. And it went
very well!
I had lots of questions and was able to answer all but one.
The presentation was about building native iPhone applications using
JavaScript and HTML instead of Objective-C. I’m currently using Titanium
Mobile to does this.
I’ve posted a slide share of the iPhone development presentation at On3.
... (more)

Some tweeters use “Shock ‘n Awe” and others use humor (that’s humour
for my Canadian friends.)
OT: Should I call them “tweeters” or “twits”?
Never mind, let’s talk about some of the things you can do to make the most
of Twitter.
Just like the subject line to an email, each tweet should get to the point
very quickly. In fact, many of us read email in the same way we read tweets
(only the first 140 characters.)
Lets face it, if you’re not Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber, getting a bunch of
people interested in what you have to say doesn’t come easy. But with a
little advice on the subt... (more)

The fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) is been slung around by profiteers like
folding chairs at a WWE event. The haters are still being haters. Nothing new
there. But now I see JavaScript companies’ desperate pleas for Flex
developers to start using their HTML5 software.
The context is all wrong here. Very, very few Flex developers have shifted,
moved, changed over, or whatever you want to call it… to HTML5 (or anything
else JS-based.)
There is not a move to HTML5
I will go as far as to say that there is not a move to HTML5. The simple fact
is that, developers are being develop... (more)